It is mostly about stories on the Korean people’s struggles against the U. S. bases in Korea. Hope many of you find some clues and sources here. Please just be kind and fair to the source.많은 분들께서 여기에서 단서들과 자료들을 찾길 바랍니다. 다만 단서와 자료의 기원에 대해 친절하고 공정하게 표기해 주시면 감사하겠읍니다.

A loaded gun used in a crime is considered assault even if it is not fired. The violence is still there. The United States levies that same violence on the rest of the world through the presence of its missile facilities strewn across the Pacific. It’s the same loaded gun, but for the peoples of the Pacific, the terror is millions of times greater. We, peoples of the Pacific, should not have to endure this terror if the United States truly did stand for “peace and justice for all.”

The word Pacific comes from the Latin word for “peace,” which was how the European explorers described these waters and her peoples. Ironically, these famously “peaceful” islands are profoundly affected by U.S. war policy. The Pentagon carries out plans daily that destroy reefs, contaminate soil and groundwater, decimate whales and dolphins with cerebellum-numbing sonar, annihilate cultures, and wipe out entire ecosystems. The launch of missiles like the ICBM from Vandenberg is just one of a multitude of destructive war exercises. The Earth and her peoples can no longer endure this insane way of life.

And plans are now in the works to enlarge the network of bases across the Asia-Pacific region. But resistance is building. We have had enough. Just look at our cousins in Okinawa. For sixty years, their island has endured the rapes, the crimes, the pollution, the constant roar of jets flying low at all hours of the day and night – because the U.S. has riddled the otherwise placid island with scores of its military facilities and tens of thousands of young American males. Okinawan protestors are legendary in the Asia-Pacific region for their fierce diligence, creativity, and sheer numbers. Though not reported in the American or European press, it has been the Okinawan resistance that has brought the U.S. plans to beef up bases in the region to a grinding stalemate.

And on the island of Guahan (Guam) in the western Pacific, a powerful resistance movement is rising like a Phoenix from the ashes. The young people of the island are leading a movement that opposes the Pentagon’s transfer of tens of thousands of troops and foreign laborers to their small island. Plans include a berth for a nuclear aircraft carrier that would destroy 71 acres of a vibrant reef; a state-of-the-art missile range that would augment the facilities at Vandenberg, Kauai, Kwajalein and Okinawa; and a land grab that would transform an expansive, sacred valley and archeological site into a live-fire shooting range. The whole thing would cost the U.S. between $13 and 20 billion. Wouldn’t that money be better spent on education and healthcare for the Americans who shelled out those tax dollars in the first place?

We island dwellers always hear our homes described as small, isolated, insignificant. This is a staunchly continental perspective. The traditional Oceanic perspective doesn’t view any island that way – as isolated. Rather, the ocean connects us all into a single “blue continent.” We here from the Kauai Alliance for Peace and Social Justice have joined forces with our island allies across our hemisphere to protect our peoples’ rights to peace and justice. We are mobilizing to resist the continuation of this violent occupation with its war games and its missile launches. Stop your military testing. Shut down your bases. You’re not protecting anything. You’re killing the planet. Enough already – the Cold War is over!

“The ocean,” Paik said, “connects us all into a single blue continent.” Stressing the cultural, historical, and linguistic ties between all Pacific peoples, Paik said, “We need to see the connection between Hawaii and all the Pacific islands because the military certainly does. Part of the [U.S.] military’s build-up on Guam is a missile defense shield hooked up to a network that includes the Pacific Missile Range Facility [on Kauai], Kwajalein [Marshall Islands], Vandenberg Air force Base, and Okinawa.”

'“If we think of ourselves [in the Pacific] as separate, we will always be a small, disempowered population, isolated and in the middle of nowhere,” Paik said. “But if we think of ourselves as connected by the ocean, we can be a viable political block.”

Paik said real security and sustainability won’t come until people in the Pacific detach themselves from militarism, corporatism, and what she calls the “colonial thinking that power and abundance come from outside rather than within.”'

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The site is managed by an artist living in the South Korea. The photo in the profile is the children in Osan, near the Pyeongtaek where the planned US military base hub in the north east Asia and a large US air base exists. They are the children of a teacher who manages the Children Peace School there. As a part of the class programs, the children in the class drew and wrote in a cloth, their wishes of the peaceful unification of Korea some day.